Sentences with word «browridge»

We propose that conversion of the large browridges of our immediate ancestors to a more vertical frontal bone in modern humans allowed highly mobile eyebrows to display subtle affiliative emotions.

The gender is also unknown, but the skull's massive browridges suggest the early hominin may have been male.

In addition to being tiny, the bones display traits that are typically associated with earlier members of our genus, including pronounced browridges and a nonprojecting chin.

Eyes set wide like a gorilla's and a heavy browridge level with the top of the skull suggest an ape.

He is clearly a jovial character, with a face to match — the customary large browridge, big nose and weak chin.

There was a tendency in the early 1900's to classify any skull with a browridge or receding forehead as a Neandertal (Trinkaus and Howells, Sci.Am, Dec 1979).

The presence and variability of browridges in archaic Homo species and their absence in ourselves have led to debate concerning their morphogenesis and function, with two main hypotheses being put forward: that browridge morphology is the result of the spatial relationship between the orbits and the brain case; and that browridge morphology is significantly impacted by biting mechanics.